Charlotte Church has defended her appearance on BBC’s Question Time after blaming the Syrian civil war on climate change.

The singer was part of a panel on Thursday’s show which also included Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and Labour MP for Aberavon, Stephen Kinnock.

The panel was asked if British airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria should be ruled out.

Church said we should ask the Syrian people who their real enemy is before adding: “Another interesting thing with Syria actually, lots of people don’t seem to know about it, is there is evidence to suggest that climate change was a big factor in how the Syrian conflict came about.”

She said between 2006 and 2011 the country experienced one of the worst droughts in its history.

Charlotte Church (Image: WENN)

She added: “This of course meant that there were water shortages and crops weren’t growing so there was a mass migration from rural areas of Syria in the urban centres which put more strain and resources were scarce et cetera.”

The singer added: “No issue is an island, so I also think we need to look at what we’re doing to the planet and how that might actually cause more conflict in the world.”